The ground was cursed 'because of Adam,' because if Adam had not sinned, he'd have extended the Garden's boundaries(subdued the earth) with Jehovah's help, which would have been a 'blessing' to the Earth. Because he sinned, he was set outside the Garden, which was wild and untended.

Ed 3, sorry didn't mean to come in and throw off your thread. I was simply trying to explain why the WT GB's teaching regarding this "curse" being lifted doesn't make sense from a biblical standpoint.

In my opinion the reality is that while nature can be beautiful, as your pictures clearly show. It is still inherently wild, untended and in many ways dangerous. The "paradasaic" conditions that GTBHS and MJ are talking about are fantasies. They never existed...

Well, that within itself would be good topic of conversation, however, the main thing that I was questioning in this thread was that according to the Biblical account(or a person's interpretation of the Biblcial account), was the Garden of Eden the only place on earth where the natural envinromnment was lush and beautiful and paradisical...while the rest of the land(the planet) outside of Eden was not...and had to be made that way by Adam and his perfect offspring.

Or in other words, according to JWs' interpretation of the Bible, did the rest of the land on earth outside of the Garden of Eden look like this:

Well, that within itself would be good topic of conversation, however, the main thing that I was questioning in this thread was that according to the Biblical account(or a person's interpretation of the Biblcial account), was the Garden of Eden the only place on earth where the natural envinromnment was lush and beautiful and paradisical...while the rest of the land(the planet) outside of Eden was not...and had to be made that way by Adam and his perfect offspring.

Or in other words, according to JWs' interpretation of the Bible, did the rest of the land on earth outside of the Garden of Eden look like this:

Well, that within itself would be good topic of conversation, however, the main thing that I was questioning in this thread was that according to the Biblical account(or a person's interpretation of the Biblcial account), was the Garden of Eden the only place on earth where the natural envinromnment was lush and beautiful and paradisical...while the rest of the land(the planet) outside of Eden was not...and had to be made that way by Adam and his perfect offspring.

Or in other words, according to JWs' interpretation of the Bible, did the rest of the land on earth outside of the Garden of Eden look like this: